5 CSS shorthand tips and how to optimize CSS

If you want to write efficient and optimized CSS code then you’ll surely need to have in mind the following shorthand tips.

These tips and tricks apparently don’t seem to be so important at the first sight. But once you write thousands of CSS lines you will wish to optimize every single line.

Why’s that? Because loading speed does matter (Google introduced this to their ranking algorithms) and your web pages will load faster because your stylesheet file size will be smaller.

Below I will present you a short, yet comprehensive CSS shorthand guide to help you get started optimizing your CSS file. So let’s have a look at some examples and see exactly how we can optimize a CSS file.

1.Background properties in one line

Defining a background property could be made in an easier way than we often happen to see.